THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Tuesday, December 24, 2013— Page 19
––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2013. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 24, 1913, 73 people, most of them children, died in a crush of panic after someone falsely called out “Fire!” during a Christmas party for striking miners and their families at the Italian Hall in Calumet, Mich. On this date: In 1524, Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama — who had discovered a sea route around Africa to India — died in Cochin, India. In 1814, the War of 1812 officially ended as the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent. In 1851, fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes. In 1863, English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, author of “Vanity Fair,” died in London at age 52. In 1865, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tenn., called the Ku Klux Klan. In 1871, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Aida” had its world premiere in Cairo, Egypt. In 1906, Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to transmit the human voice (his own) as well as music over radio, from Brant Rock, Mass. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe as part of Operation Overlord. In 1951, Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” the first opera written specifically for television, was first broadcast by NBC-TV. In 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve telecast. In 1980, Americans remembered the U.S. hostages in Iran by burning candles or shining lights for 417 seconds — one second for each day of captivity. In 1993, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, who blended Christian and psychiatric principles into a message of “positive thinking,” died in Pawling, N.Y., at age 95. Ten years ago: A roadside bomb exploded north of Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers in the deadliest attack on Americans to that time following Saddam Hussein’s capture. Five years ago: A man dressed in a Santa Claus suit shot his way into the Covina, Calif., home of his former in-laws and set it on fire, killing nine people (the attacker, identified as Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, committed suicide the next day). One year ago: An Afghan policewoman walked into a high-security compound in Kabul and killed an American contractor, the first such shooting by a woman in a spate of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies. An ex-con gunned down two firefighters in Webster, N.Y., after luring them to his suburban Rochester neighborhood by setting a car and a house ablaze, then took shots at police and committed suicide while several homes burned.
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10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Frontline Life of Jesus; rise of Christianity.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live Å Christmas Eve Mass (N) Å Christmas
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WMTW The Grinch Movie: ›› “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
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J. Kimmel
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WMUR The Grinch Movie: ›› “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
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J. Kimmel
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WLVI
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WENH
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WSBK
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WGME
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WTBS Movie: ›››› “A Christmas Story” (1983)
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A New York Christmas
Movie: “The 12 Dogs of Christmas” (2005) John 7 News at 10PM on The Arsenio Hall Show Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy. A girl plans a holiday CW56 (N) (In Stereo) Å “The Best Man Holiday”; pageant to help dogs. (In Stereo) Nick Cannon. Father Brown Father Masterpiece Classic “Downton Abbey, Season 3” PBS NewsHour (N) (In Brown’s priceless Blue Change affects many at Downton Abbey. (In Stereo) Stereo) Å Cross. (In Stereo) Å Å (DVS) Bones “The Boy in the Bones “The Blonde in WBZ News Friends (In Seinfeld The OfShroud” Body beside a the Game” Matching wits (N) Å Stereo) Å “The Ticket” fice Å garbage truck. Å with a serial killer. NCIS Å (DVS) NCIS: Los Angeles Person of Interest News Christmas Dads Å
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (In Stereo) Capitol Hill Hearings CSPAN WBIN Law & Order: SVU WFXT (DVS)
Movie: ›››› “A Christmas Story” (1983)
New Girl The Mindy Fox 25 News at 10 (N) Å Fox 25 TMZ (In “Santa” (In Project (In News at Stereo) Å Stereo) Stereo) 11 (N) First Ladies: Influence & Image (In Stereo) Women Warriors Law & Order: SVU
Simpsons Cleveland South Park King of Hill
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ESPN College Football Sheraton Hawaii Bowl -- Boise State vs. Oregon State. (N) (Live)
SportCtr
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ESPN2 SportsCenter Special
Sport Sci.
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CSNE Return to Vancouver
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SportsNet 3 and Out SportsNet
NESN NHL Hockey: Penguins at Bruins
Sports
Sports
LIFE Movie: “Christmas on the Bayou” (2013) Å
Movie: “Dear Secret Santa” (2013) Tatyana Ali.
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Kardashian
The Drama Queen (N)
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MTV Movie: “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
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FNC
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SportCtr
Sports
A FOX & Friends Christmas (N)
MSNBC Lockup: Corcoran
Lockup: Corcoran
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CNN Back to the Beginning-Amanpour
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TNT
Castle “Rise” Mod Fam
Total Divas
Sports Chelsea
Sports Divas
Movie: “Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights” West Point Holiday
FOX-Christmas
Lockup: Corcoran
Lockup: Corcoran
Back to the Beginning-Amanpour
Boston’s Finest (N)
Marshal Law: Texas
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
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USA Mod Fam
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COM Bill Cosby Movie: ››› “Trading Places” (1983, Comedy) Dan Aykroyd.
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SPIKE “The Mummy Returns”
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BRAVO Movie: ››› “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008) Mila Kunis
Movie: ›› “The Scorpion King” (2002)
Boston’s Finest Å Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Movie: “Tommy Boy” “Lara Croft-Life”
“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”
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AMC Movie: ››› “Rio Bravo” (1959) John Wayne.
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SYFY ››› “Batman Begins”
Movie: ››› “The Prestige” (2006, Drama) Hugh Jackman.
Ware
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A&E Storage
Storage
Shipping
Shipping
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Hunters HGTV Hawaii Life Hawaii Life Hawaii Life Hawaii Life Hunters Backyard Oil: After DISC Moonshiners: Outlaw Moonshiners (N) Å
Hunters
Hunters
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Storage
Long Island Medium
Storage
Long Island Medium
Movie: ››‡ “Cahill, United States Marshal” Shipping
Shipping
Long Island Medium
Moonshiners Å Long Island Medium
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TLC
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NICK Instant
See Dad
Full House Full House Full House Full House Friends
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TOON MAD
Teen
Regular
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FAM “The Santa Clause 2” DSN Liv-Mad.
Friends
Adventure Cleveland Amer. Dad Family Guy Å
“The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”
“Good Luck Charlie”
SHOW Movie: ›››‡ “Lincoln” (2012) Å
Austin
The 700 Club Å
ANT Farm Dog
Another Day, Another Time
Austin Llewyn
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HBO Movie: ››‡ “Broken City” (2013) Å
24/7 Red Wings/Maple Treme (In Stereo) Å
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MAX Movie: ››› “The Negotiator” (1998) Å
Movie: ›‡ “This Means War”
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WBZ for Christmas. (In Stereo) team investigates a bi-
by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
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Nature (In Stereo) Å
NCIS Tony’s father visits NCIS: Los Angeles The Person of Interest The WBZ News FBI pursues “the man in (N) Å zarre case. (In Stereo) the suit.” Å Å (DVS) Dr. Seuss’ Movie: ›› “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000, NewsCenFantasy) Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor. A curmudgeon hates the ter 5 Late WCVB Grinch Christmas-loving Whos of Whoville. (In Stereo) (N) Å News Movie: ›››› “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946, Comedy-Drama) James Stewart, WCSH Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore. A guardian angel strengthens a man ruined by a miser. Å (DVS) News WHDH Movie: ›››› “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) James Stewart. Å (DVS)
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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
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WGBH NOVA Å (DVS)
DECEMBER 24, 2013
Baby Dolls
CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Annual candlelight Christmas Eve service at Bristol Baptist Church beginning at 11 p.m. For more information call 744-3885. Christmas Eve services for the United Methodist Church in Gilford. Candlelighting and Carols presented by the Wesley Choir and Hallelujah Handbells 7 p.m. Communion and Candlelighting 11 p.m. Christmas candlelight service, Laconia Unitarian Universalist Church, 172 Pleasant St., 5 p.m. Christmas Eve Service at the Sanbornton Congregational Church- UCC. 7 p.m. 21 Meetinghouse Hill Road in Sanbornton. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service hosted by the Family Worship Center in Plymouth. 6-7 p.m. at 319 Highland Street in Plymouth. For more information call 5261966.
‘Room for One More’ at Alton library Oscar Night at the Movies
ALTON — Oscar Night at the Movies on Friday, January 3 at 7 p.m. at the Gilman Library will feature the 1952 film ‘’Room for One More.’’ When it comes to children, three’s a crowd for city engineer Poppy Rose. But for his wife, Anna, three is just a beginning. She wants to add to their brood of three kids, legion of cats, scruffy stray dog, and whatever else comes their way by becoming foster parents of one, then another, troubled youth. With his charm, offhand wit and impeccable timing always in play, screen icon Cary Grant shines as Poppy in this “warmhearted, thoroughly engaging domestic comedy”. Opposite him as Anna is Betsy Drake, turning her real-life marriage to Grant into real screen chemistry. Admission is free. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Children under the age of 10 must be accompanied by an adult.
River Crew Art to be featured at Gilford Library
LACONIA – The photography and artwork created by participants in the River Crew Art program will be showcased in an art show at Gilford Public Library, located at 31 Potter Hill Road in Gilford. The exhibit will be on display during the month of January. Artwork and photographs on exhibit will be for sale, and all proceeds will directly benefit the program. Participants in the program have produced artwork throughout the past year in various forms including collages using found objects, painting, wood sculpture, and other media. The photography on exhibit will include images of Laconia, the Winnipesaukee River, and local see next page
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